Chain-link



(No Model.) D. M. WILLIAMS.

CHAIN LINK.

No. 482,665. Patented Sept. 13, 1892.

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STATES PATENT FFicE.

DAVID M. IVILLIAMS, OF EDWVARDSDALE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHAIN-LINK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,665, dated September 13, 1892.

Application filed May 11, 1892. Serial No. 432,642. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatl, DAVID M. WILLIAMs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Edwardsdale,in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Chains; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation toiinprovements in chain-links having a swiveled hook; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the link, together with a hook which is swiveled therein. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the sections coinposing the link, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the hook employed in connection with the link.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates the link, which comprises the sections B. These sections B, which are similar in form and construction, respectively comprise the body d of a general loop form, having the opening a and a flat inner side, the transverse apertures 19, formed in the body adjacent to the opening (1 ,1116 shoulder 0, extending from the inner side of the body, preferably at a point opposite to the opening (t the studs cl, extending from the inner side of the body on opposite sides of the shoulder c and adapted to take through the apertures b of the other section and be riveted to connect the sections together, and the extended portion 6, having a groove f, of semicircular form in cross-section in its inner side, and a seat 9 at the inner end of said groove.

Journaled in the bearing formed by the groovesf in the extended portions of the sections B, forming the link A, is the shank O of thehook D, which shank is reduced, as shown, so as to form the shoulder h and the head i, which latter rests in the seat 9 of the said link A and prevents a casual disconnection of the hook from the link.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a chain substantially as described, the combination, with a link consisting of two sec tions respectively comprising the body of a general loop form having an opening, the transverse apertures formed in the body adjacent to the opening therein, the shoulder extending from theinner side of the body, the studs extending from the inner side of the body on opposite sides of the shoulder and adapted to take through the transverse apertures of the other section and be riveted, and the extended portion 6, having a groove f, of semicircular form in cross-section, in its inner side, and the seat g at the inner end of said groove, of the hook having its shank journaled in the bearingformed by the grooves fof the extended portion 6 and reduced to form the shoulder h and the head 2', substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID M. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

GEORGE LEWIS, NEIL MoKE'oHNIE. 

